Struts 2 - implementing warning functionality

Hello, I'm trying to get some ideas and best practices for implementing warning functionality in an application. I want to validate user input and inform (warn) the user of possible problems, and allow the user to 'okay' the update despite warnings.

I was curious if anyone else had already crossed this path and could offer some advice. Any help will be appreciated.

That's a pretty broad question. So far you're just describing generic validation, which is supported by any reasonable web framework, including S2.

Robert Atchison
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posted Dec 18, 2009 14:16:12

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Validation in S2 is it's an error or it's not (as I understand it). If validation fails the user must correct some data. I need to warn the user of some business condition; something like 'acct up to date, do you really want to close acct?' Nothing wrong with data, no real errors, just something the user needs to confirm before proceeding.

Using S1 my group created a custom request processor that called custom method on the form called validateWarning(). JSP included script to throw popup with warning message (if present) for user to confirm or cancel. If user confirmed a flag to ignore warning was set and the validateWarning() method was skipped. I will need to do something similar in my S2 app.